Sick and Twisted is a collection of funny cartoons and award-winning comics by Oliver Gaspirtz. Over the past 20 years, his cartoons have been published in many newspapers and magazines across the US, including the National Enquirer, Saturday Evening Post, SUN, Medical Post, Physician, Funny Times, American Police Beat, as well as in magazines in Germany and England. During the 1990s, Deike Press, Germany's largest syndicate, distributed his cartoons to hundreds of German newspapers while King Features syndicate distributed them in the US as part of The New Breed comic strip. Cartoons by Gaspirtz have appeared in over 20 books, such as Chickensoup For The Country Soul. Since 2000, Gaspirtz has been publishing his work on the Internet. His cartoons have been on display in several museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in Tehran, Iran and the Cartoon Art Museum in Boca Raton. His colorful artwork looks harmless and family friendly, and is reminiscent of early Disney cartoons. But his uncensored dark humor reminds of Gary Larson's single panel gag cartoons The Far Side.

Have you ever had one of those moments, when something so horribly awkward and embarrassing happens, you just want to crawl in a hole and die? Well, you’re not alone. This book is full of those moments. And as terrible as they may be when they happen to you, they’re pretty funny when they happen to someone else. “A very entertaining little book. Makes a great travel companion or bathroom reader.” “A delightful guilty pleasure.” “These stories of utter embarrassment have universal appeal, because we have all been in one or more of these situations at one point or another in our lives.” “The human experience, sliced and diced into microscopic short stories and cartoons that will make you laugh out loud.” “Why do we like to laugh at other people’s misfortune? Who knows? But Germans even have a word for it: Schadenfreude.” Adult Humor Free Books

Queen of Bebop brilliantly chronicles the life of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the twentieth century and a pioneer of women’s and civil rights Sarah Vaughan, a pivotal figure in the formation of bebop, influenced a broad array of singers who followed in her wake, yet the breadth and depth of her impact—not just as an artist, but also as an African-American woman—remain overlooked. Drawing from a wealth of sources as well as on exclusive interviews with Vaughan’s friends and former colleagues, Queen of Bebop unravels the many myths and misunderstandings that have surrounded Vaughan while offering insights into this notoriously private woman, her creative process, and, ultimately, her genius. Hayes deftly traces the influence that Vaughan’s singing had on the perception and appreciation of vocalists—not to mention women—in jazz. She reveals how, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Vaughan helped desegregate American airwaves, opening doors for future African-American artists seeking mainstream success, while also setting the stage for the civil rights activism of the 1960s and 1970s. She follows Vaughan from her hometown of Newark, New Jersey, and her first performances at the Apollo, to the Waldorf Astoria and on to the world stage, breathing life into a thrilling time in American music nearly lost to us today. Equal parts biography, criticism, and good old-fashioned American success story, Queen of Bebop is the definitive biography of a hugely influential artist. This absorbing and sensitive treatment of a singular personality updates and corrects the historical record on Vaughan and elevates her status as a jazz great.

The satire is, in many ways, spot on ... - Hollis Phelps, Truthout [And you know it just has to be good when you read all the one-star put-downs we're getting from wingnuts on the political Right. We seem to have touched a nerve!] Come along with Governor Mike Huckleberry as he seeks the Republican nomination for president and thereby also seeks to deliver America from what he sees as its current death spiral into religious, moral, economic and racial decay. In this candid first-person memoir, Huckleberry gives you an insider's view of his beleaguered campaign, such as it is - a hilarious clown-car packed with an astonishing array of fear-mongering grotesques, xenophobic paranoids, closeted bigots and rapacious, self-promoting Conservative pundits, all of them poised to commandeer America's future in the name of God and unrestrained capitalism (not necessarily in that order).

We all get into trouble. We are late. We got caught speeding. We didn’t get our homework in on time. Now here is the book that gives you foolproof funny excuses for almost any situation. Complete with illustrations and scenarios, Cover Your Ass gives you the foolproof excuses to cover your butt. Examples of chapters include: • Why I Won’t Have Sex With You • Why I Can’t Come to Work • Why I Can’t Go to the Gym • Why I Sent You a Drunk Text • Why I Went Off My Diet Using the humorous excuses in this book can bail you out of difficult situations. So there is no excuse for failing to buy this book! The author is the recipient of the Noble Prize in Literature, the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, and a New York Times Bestselling author. Of course, none of that is remotely true, but he has a good excuse for making that up. Read the book for the answer!

In the continuing saga of the bizarre adventures of faithless Texas preacher Jesse Custer, Jesse, along with his girlfriend Tulip, and their friend Cassidy, the Irish vampire, head west to a party of Babylonian proportions. Then, Jesse heads for France to rescue Cassidy from the clutches of religious fanatics. His search leads him into a no-holds-barred battle against the forces of the mysterious organization known as The Grail. Also told here is the story of how Cassidy became a vampire in the first place.